bref_wnba_player_stats: *Basketball-Reference WNBA Player Season Stats*

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Basketball-Reference WNBA Player Season Stats

Description

Get WNBA league-wide player season statistics from Basketball-Reference.

One row per player for a season. No account or API key is required. Basketball-Reference rate-limits aggressive scraping (~20 requests/minute) – space repeated calls with Sys.sleep().

Usage

bref_wnba_player_stats(season = most_recent_wnba_season(), table = "per_game")

Arguments

season	Season, in 4-digit year format (e.g. 2024). Defaults to most_recent_wnba_season().
table	Which stats table – one of "per_game" (default), "totals" or "advanced".

Value

A wehoop_data tibble with one row per player, carrying season and table columns.

col_name	types
player	character
team_id	character
pos	character
g	numeric
pts_per_g	numeric
season	integer
table	character

See Also

Other WNBA Basketball-Reference Functions: bref_wnba_standings(), bref_wnba_team_stats()

Examples

  try(bref_wnba_player_stats(season = 2024, table = "per_game"))

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